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King County aims to slash carbon emissions in half by 2030, including aviation
A plane takes off on Monday, December 11, 2017, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Credit: KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer By John Ryan The King County Council unanimously approved a new climate strategy Tuesday, aimed at cutting the county’s climate-harming pollution in half in less than a decade. In addition to halving the climate impact of Washington’s most -
KUOW: Sea-Tac wants to curb carbon without limiting your travel. That’s a steep climb 01/29/18
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Mt. Rainier KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer Business at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has been booming, and so has its carbon pollution. Airport officials say they can eliminate the climate-wrecking emissions without limiting the airport’s rapidly growing business. But whether the wonder of air travel can be divorced from the global harm it does — -
KUOW: These Are Washington’s Top 10 Climate Polluters 01/29/16
he Tesoro refinery in Anacortes, one of Washington’s top 10 sources of greenhouse gases. Credit: Flickr Photo/Scott Butner (CC BY NC ND 2.0) These Are Washington’s Top 10 Climate Polluters By John Ryan Jan 29, 2016 at 9:30 am The biggest climate polluters in Washington have been identified, according to numbers out this week: the